"With funding from the Institute of Museum and Library
Services, the UCSB Libraries have created a digital collection of over 8,000
cylinder recordings held by the Department of Special Collections. In an effort
to bring these recordings to a wider audience, they can be freely downloaded or
streamed online."

"The Digital Archives of Literacy Narratives (DALN) is
a publicly available archive of literacy narratives in a variety of formats
(print, video, audio) that together provide a historical record of the literacy
practices and values of U.S. citizens..."

"The Florida Memory Project presents a selection of
historical records that illustrate significant moments in Florida history,
educational resources for students of all ages and archival collections for historical
research."

"A
research institution devoted to the study of music and oral arts in Africa, it
preserves thousands of historical recordings going back to 1929 and supports
contemporary fieldwork. It is currently digitizing its collections."

"This
library contains over a hundred thousand free digital recordings ranging from
alternative news programming, ... to original music uploaded by our users. Many
of these audios and MP3s are available for free download."

"LCAAJ,
is an extraordinary resource for research in Yiddish studies, consists of 5,755
hours of audio tape field interviews with Yiddish speaking informants collected
between 1959 and 1972 and ca. 100,000 pages of accompanying linguistic field
notes."

Free Audio Books,
Lectures, & Speeches on MP3 Download and Streaming Video"LearnOutLoud.com has scoured
the Internet to bring you over 500 free audio and video titles. This directory
features free audio books, lectures, speeches, sermons, interviews, and many
other great free audio and video resources."

"LibriVox
provides free audiobooks from the public domain." ... "LibriVox
volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio
files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books available
as free audio books."

"LUNA Commons is a new source for finding valuable,
educational content from digital collections built in the Insight Software from
Luna Imaging, Inc. and presented in Insight's dynamic new LUNA browser."

The Vincent Voice Library is a collection of primary source
sound material, found mainly in speech, interview, lecture and performance
formats. It is the largest academic voice library in the United States and is
part of the MSU Libraries.

The NASA Multimedia Gallery provides an abundance of
dramatic images, audio, and video. Most of the media is free of copyright when
used for educational purposes. Topics cover a range of activities, including
astronomy, earth science, and oceanography.

"The Civil Rights Digital Library Initiative represents
one of the most ambitious and comprehensive efforts to date to deliver
educational content on the Civil Rights Movement via the Web." The CRDL
contains several hours of videoand learning objects

"The
mission of the VCA at Texas Tech is to support and encourage research and
education regarding all aspects of the American Vietnam experience; promoting a
greater understanding of this experience and the peoples and cultures of
Southeast Asia."

"These on-demand recorded broadcasts of Smithsonian Associates events include book discussions with noted authors, programs on history and current events, interviews with national leaders, and panels on a range of intriguing topics."

"The WDL makes it possible to discover, study, and
enjoy cultural treasures from around the world on one site, in a variety of
ways. These cultural treasures include, but are not limited to, manuscripts,
maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and
architectural drawings. Items on the WDL may easily be browsed by place, time,
topic, type of item, and contributing institution, or can be located by an
open-ended search, in several languages. Special features include interactive
geographic clusters, a timeline, advanced image-viewing and interpretive
capabilities. Item-level descriptions and interviews with curators about
featured items provide additional information."

The Architect of the Capitol site contains images may be
used freely for educational purposes. If written permission for use is needed,
a letter must be sent. Visit the Sculpture Gallery to obtain photographs of
famous figures in American history.

"The Digital Archives of Literacy Narratives (DALN) is
a publicly available archive of literacy narratives in a variety of formats
(print, video, audio) that together provide a historical record of the literacy
practices and values of U.S. citizens..."

"The
Florida Memory Project presents a selection of historical records that
illustrate significant moments in Florida history, educational resources for
students of all ages and archival collections for historical research."

"The Greene & Greene Architectural Records and
Papers Collection spans the years ca. 1896-1963. The collection chiefly
consists of architectural drawings (approximately 5,000) and also includes
photographs, personal papers, and other manuscript material."

"The Indiana University Digital Library Program (DLP)
is dedicated to the production, maintenance, delivery, and preservation of a
wide range of high-quality networked resources for scholars and students at
Indiana University and elsewhere."

"Search
millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s
to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time
through the joint work of LIFE and Google."

The NASA Multimedia Gallery provides an abundance of
dramatic images, audio, and video. Most of the media is free of copyright when
used for educational purposes. Topics cover a range of activities, including
astronomy, earth science, and oceanography.

"...represents
a collaborative effort by the UV Library, the United States ICOMOS, and
Ghanaian institutions to document the unique cultural landscape of the Cape
Coast, Ghana region for the purposes of preservation and education."

"The
Civil Rights Digital Library Initiative represents one of the most ambitious
and comprehensive efforts to date to deliver educational content on the Civil
Rights Movement via the Web." The CRDL contains several hours of videoand
learning objects

A
searchable collection of public domain, low resolution images that includes
imagey of species including birds, amphibians, reptiles, fish, mammals and plants
and shots of habitats, refuges, hatcheries, environmental issues.

"The Digital Collections at the UWM Libraries include
over 29,000 photographic images, maps, and books drawn from the collections of
the American Geographical Society Library, the Archives, Special Collections,
and the Curriculum Library."

"The
WDL makes it possible to discover, study, and enjoy cultural treasures from
around the world on one site, in a variety of ways. These cultural treasures
include, but are not limited to, manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores,
recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings. Items on
the WDL may easily be browsed by place, time, topic, type of item, and
contributing institution, or can be located by an open-ended search, in several
languages. Special features include interactive geographic clusters, a
timeline, advanced image-viewing and interpretive capabilities. Item-level
descriptions and interviews with curators about featured items provide
additional information."

The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a Web 2.0
visualization software environment that enables your computer to function as a
virtual telescope bringing together imagery from the best ground and
space-based telescopes in the world for a seamless exploration

"The Digital Archives of Literacy Narratives (DALN) is a publicly available archive of literacy narratives in a variety of formats (print, video, audio) that together provide a historical record of the literacy practices and values of U.S. citizens..."

"Collection
of video drawn from live events, lectures, and debates going on all the time at
the world's top universities, think tanks and conferences, organized into categories
including: The Economy, Green, Politics, Science, Technology, Culture."

"The
Forum Network online library features thousands of lectures by some of the
world's foremost scholars, authors, artists, scientists, policy makers and
community leaders, available to citizens of the world for free."

"LearnOutLoud.com has scoured the Internet to bring you over 500 free audio and video titles. This directory features free audio books, lectures, speeches, sermons, interviews, and many other great free audio and video resources."

"
This library contains thousands of digital movies which range from classic
full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to videos of every
genre uploaded by Archive users. Many of these movies are available for
download."

"The Learning to Teach Online project is a free
professional development resource designed to help teachers from any
discipline, whether experienced in online teaching or not, to gain a working
understanding of successful online teaching pedagogies that they can apply in
their own unique teaching situations."

The NASA Multimedia Gallery provides an abundance of
dramatic images, audio, and video. Most of the media is free of copyright when
used for educational purposes. Topics cover a range of activities, including
astronomy, earth science, and oceanography.

"...Provides a growing resource of artist talks, performances
and cultural debate. Currently there are over 600 hours of audio and video
available. Archives are updated and available to view online within two weeks
of the live event."

"Annenberg
Media uses media and telecommunications to advance excellent teaching in
American schools. " This website contains quality videos produced for
eduction on several topics and for sevel levels of learners.

"CNMTL
routinely videotapes lectures, interviews and events at Columbia, including the
acclaimed Reuters Forum, the University Seminars in New Media Teaching and
Learning and the annual Columbia University Commencement exercises."

"The Civil Rights Digital Library Initiative represents
one of the most ambitious and comprehensive efforts to date to deliver
educational content on the Civil Rights Movement via the Web." The CRDL
contains several hours of videoand learning objects

"The
mission of the VCA at Texas Tech is to support and encourage research and
education regarding all aspects of the American Vietnam experience; promoting a
greater understanding of this experience and the peoples and cultures of Southeast
Asia."

"The
WDL makes it possible to discover, study, and enjoy cultural treasures from
around the world on one site, in a variety of ways. These cultural treasures
include, but are not limited to, manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores,
recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings. Items on
the WDL may easily be browsed by place, time, topic, type of item, and
contributing institution, or can be located by an open-ended search, in several
languages. Special features include interactive geographic clusters, a timeline,
advanced image-viewing and interpretive capabilities. Item-level descriptions
and interviews with curators about featured items provide additional
information."